Lawns

We have 3 whippets and I consider my lawn to be in fairly good condition.. but it's hard work. Firstly the dog rocks probably work if they have no other access to water for example ponds..I'm lucky because my partner takes my dogs out before work so they manage to do that first wee and poo out!...

red thread - improve soil fertility. Autumn feed now and nitrogen in the spring. Should be fine

Right, put some Autumn lawn feed on today (evergreen brand) after I'd cut it. It ays water in after 2 days if no rain, well I think its going to rain this week, but it does say only to start feeding. Just to check, autumn stuff doesn't burn the grass does it? As mornings there will be a bit of...

You can always get a bad lawn back into shape. Earlier this year I made a classic balls up and sprayed a good amount of Pathclear (hardcore weed killer NOT for lawns) on my lawn rather than Verdone.I was very worried it would mess things up. Looking back it was a good thing, the BIG BIG weeds...

I've used wooden slats, old fence posts and even decorative stones in various areas of the garden. Once the plants grow up and sprawl all over the place, you hardly notice it.

If you don't rake leaves off your lawn you run the risk of the lawn dying back to bare earth, although it will return in the spring, it will take some time. It is not the easiest of jobs, as the leaves this time of year just keep on coming and coming. I tend to do mine once a fortnight, which...

At the moment from a distance it looks reasonable. But thats because we have been feeding and then watering very regular. I havent watered for a couple of days now so expect it to be dying off again soonish.

You don't need to water twice a day. But you do need to make sure that it gets a decent soaking when you do water.In the heat of Summer I would water in the evening, so that the strong sun does not evaporate most of the water put on it :thumb:, but this time of the year, with cooler (or even...

One thing that you should perhaps bear in mind is this: at the moment, your patio is fairly easy to look after with perhaps the odd scrub now and then to keep it fresh. A lawn needs constant care in summer, and this means cutting it weekly. Then during Autumn you'll have to rake it free of...

I doubt it. i think you are more likely to have dead wood or dead roots in the ground.

We've found there's no competition for food if there's enough, the birds and squirrels "play nicely." The birds have a couple of hanging feeders, plus a dish on the patio for food. They also have a Pyrex oven dish for a bath. The squirrels have a tray for their peanuts two feet away pushed...

I always know when to treat our lawn. I "do whatever my golf club greenkeeper does when he does it." I stopped using granualar feed, weed and mosskiller as I always scorched the grass. Wilkinsons do a soluble one and I've used it for the last couple of years with great success. I have an...

At least I can hoe them in the border if need be not like the gravel

i agree it looks very much like ,the nice man, has set the mower to low,and has scalped the new lawn.the mower should have been set much higher!. music

some improvement in the lawn now though some new smaller brown patches... will have to add a new picI have a raised border where my petunias are spilling out & covering the grass. Have already lost some of the grass, so is there any way to prevent this apart from cutting the Petunias back? The...

I was told that to bring areas of lawn up to the level of raised areas you sprinkle compst onto the grass in the dips and gradually let it grow up through layer by layer. We hgave seeded a veg bed in our garden and to bring up the layer to the path it joins, where you can see a definite line,...

Thank you all for your help!!

I do it in several directions, at least 4, if not more. Depends on how bad it is. If you want to give it a good blitz with the scarifying, either invest in a small electric scarifyer, or hire one for a day/weekend, and then you'd only need to keep on top of it.For top dressing, have a look...

I find that using a watering can much just run's off the plant - whereas with a sprayer I can cover the weeds just to the point of run-off. I use a very coarse spray, which doesn't tend to drift on the wind too easily, but I also choose a dry, still evening (insects / Bees already tucked up in...